Assignment #2, Stephenson

Mara Wolfe, a senior landscape architecture major and the president of the Swing Dance Club at UMD, watches as students file into the Swing Dance Club workshop on Sept. 9 2022 in College Park, Maryland. The workshop was a part of the NextNOW Fest, an annual event hosted by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. 

Swing Dance Club members Mason Blackburn, a graduate student in international relations, and Priya Dohlman, a junior public health science major, applaud the students after they completed a move at the Swing Dance Club workshop on Sept. 9 2022 in College Park, Maryland.

Students practice a move at the Swing Dance Club workshop on Sept. 9 2022 in College Park, Maryland. For many of the students, this was the first time they attempted swing dancing. 

Shannon Hu, a freshman environmental science and technology major, and Jason Hsu, a junior electrical engineering major and Swing Dance Club member, dance together at the Swing Dance Club workshop on Sept. 9 2022 in College Park, Maryland.

Blackburn and Dohlman dance at the end of the Swing Dance Club workshop on Sept. 9 2022 in College Park, Maryland. The club members danced at the end of the workshop to show the students what they could learn if they joined. 

Swing Dance Club members Wolfe and Cliff Ritch, a University of Maryland alum, perform a Lindy Hop-style dance at the end of the Swing Dance Club workshop on Sept. 9 2022 in College Park, Maryland.